Matthew Hageehttp://www.pfaw.org/
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:30:49 -0500Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:45:40 -0500Five Moments From 2014 That Definitely Were A Sign Of The End Timeshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/five-events-which-led-end-times-2014
<p>What better way to criticize your political opponents than by accusing them of creating an oppressive government that will lead to the coming of the Antichrist and fulfill biblical prophecy on the Last Days?</p>
<p>Warning about the imminent end of the world may seem extreme, but it is a great way for media personalities, politicians and activists to rile up and instill fear in their base. Whether such arguments are purely cynical or genuine, in 2014 many conservative pundits cited the End Times to back up their denunciations of everything from gay rights to the so-called &lsquo;War on Christmas.&rsquo;</p>
<p><strong>The Obama Presidency</strong></p>
<p>After leaving Congress, Michele Bachmann <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gary-cass-antichrist-spirit-behind-war-christmas">hopes</a> to become a major conservative voice on foreign policy issues. Among her qualifications, apparently, is her knowledge of the End Times. Bachmann has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-jewish-democrats-sold-out-israel-help-obama-bible-predicts-us-will-turn-against-isr">warned</a> that the Bible prophesied the president&rsquo;s foreign policy decisions, arguing that Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are &ldquo;calling for actual war and economic war against Israel, or at least suggesting it as such.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The nations of the world will come against Israel, and the scripture very specifically says all nations. Now for the United States, we don&rsquo;t have that experience until recently under President Obama with the United States not standing with Israel,&rdquo; Bachmann said in an <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-jewish-democrats-sold-out-israel-help-obama-bible-predicts-us-will-turn-against-isr">interview</a> with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, adding that the Jewish community &ldquo;sold out Israel&rdquo; in order to &ldquo;support the political priority and the political ambitions of the president.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Pat Robertson became so concerned with Obama&rsquo;s term in office that he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-prays-obamas-removal-asks-god-deliver-us-president">called on &ldquo;700 Club&rdquo; viewers</a> to &ldquo;pray to be delivered from this president,&rdquo; warning that America will face &ldquo;serious decline unless something dramatic is done about it.&rdquo; Televangelist Matthew Hagee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-obamacare-conditioning-people-accept-mark-beast">feared</a> that Obamacare would condition people to accept &ldquo;the kind of global dictatorship that is described in the End Times&rdquo; and take on the Mark of the Beast.</p>
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<p>Pastor Franklin Graham <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-endorses-vladimir-putins-anti-gay-crackdown">suggested</a> that God will bless Russia thanks to Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s leadership while removing His favor from America as a result of administration policies that are &ldquo;pushing the gay-lesbian agenda.&rdquo; &ldquo;Our president and his attorney general have turned their backs on God and His standards, and many in the Congress are following the administration&rsquo;s lead,&rdquo; Graham <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-endorses-vladimir-putins-anti-gay-crackdown">said</a>.</p>
<p>Pastor Mark Creech, who is affiliated with the American Family Association, wrote a column for the Christian Post <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mark-creech-antichrist-obama-will-cause-god-destroy-america-tower-babel">implying</a> that Obama is the Antichrist who will surface &ldquo;in the last days &ndash; the day before Christ's return.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Radio host Rick Wiles dedicated an entire show with Jonathan Wright to discussing how the &ldquo;Bible Code&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bible-code-definitively-proves-obama-antichrist">proves Obama is the Antichrist</a> and even offered the strongest evidence yet that Obama is either the Antichrist or his forerunner: a fly once landed on him.</p>
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<p><strong>Ebola</strong></p>
<p>Following the lead of Republican politicians who cynically turned the Ebola outbreak in West Africa into a campaign issue, only to have their <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/five-crazy-conspiracy-theories-about-ebola-conservatives-actually-believe">incendiary rhetoric</a> about Ebola (<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/08/06/foxs-dr-ben-carson-fearmongers-that-someone-cou/200345">and Ebola-tainted urine</a>) subside after the Fall election, many conservative pundits and pastors used Ebola to stoke fear about imminent dictatorship, divine punishment and the end of the world as we know it.</p>
<p>Televangelist John Hagee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/john-hagee-says-ebola-gods-judgment-america-because-obama-trying-divide-israel">told</a> viewers that the Ebola virus is God&rsquo;s way of showing his anger with President Obama&rsquo;s foreign policies, while his son Matthew Hagee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-ebola-crisis-sign-end-times">suggested</a> that the Bible pointed to Ebola as a sign of the End Times. Another televangelist, Jim Bakker, offered <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-bakker-enjoy-ice-cream-sandwiches-while-everyone-else-dead">a special discount</a> on survival food items, including desserts, in case Ebola and other calamities bring down the country.</p>
<p>The doomsday prophet Glenn Beck &mdash; who raised fears about <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/call-me-crazy-glenn-beck-links-fears-airborne-ebola-nigerian-prison-guards" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> Nigerian prison guards possibly spreading Ebola to Texas </a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> and suggested that Obama doesn&rsquo;t mind Texans contracting Ebola </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/10/15/glenn-beck-on-fox-president-is-neglecting-dalla/201176" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">since it is a conservative state</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> &mdash; was pretty sure that the Ebola outbreak is the </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-warns-massive-humbling-coming-possibly-starting-ebola" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> beginning of God&rsquo;s judgment on the country </a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> and America&rsquo;s </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-finally-has-his-screaming-meltdown-over-ebola" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">imminent</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-we-are-nation-suicide-course" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">collapse</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">.</span></p>
<p>Several GOP members of Congress issued claims that Obama will&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-congressman-obama-wants-ebola-spread-so-he-can-take-control-everything">intentionally</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-us-troops-fighting-ebola-were-put-out-there-sacrificial-lambs">infect</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paul-broun-obama-may-have-purposeful-plan-spread-ebola">Americans</a> with the virus, while others made completely baseless allegations that Ebola-infected immigrants are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jul/18/phil-gingrey/rep-phil-gingrey-says-migrants-may-be-bringing-ebo/">descending</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_6cd84d69-3909-50d7-aa64-cc211b491795.html">upon</a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/politics/rand-paul-ebola/index.html">America</a>.</p>
<p>WorldNetDaily, a bastion of right-wing conspiracy theories, at different times alleged that Obama wanted Ebola to spread throughout the country in order to justify his purported plans to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-editor-obama-has-kind-thinking-led-gas-chambers">establish gulags</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/worldnetdaily-pundit-obama-using-ebola-put-us-fema-coffins-impose-martial-law"> lock Americans in FEMA camps </a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-diabolical-obama-may-want-ebola-spread-united-states">declare martial law</a>.</p>
<p>Far-right radio hosts alleged that Obama wanted to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-government-will-unleash-ebola-round-patriots">&ldquo;round up patriots</a>,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-warns-ebola-pandemic-will-lead-ban-churches">ban churches</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/laurie-roth-obama-allowing-isis-send-ebola-patients-us-so-he-can-use-fake-vaccines-track-peo"> aid Ebola-infected ISIS fighters</a>, and one Fox News personality <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/15/fox-docs-racial-rant-obama-welcomes-ebola-becau/201168">said</a> Obama hoped to use Ebola to make America &ldquo;suffer&rdquo; while helping his African brethren. One prominent right-wing radio broadcaster, Janet Parshall, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/janet-parshall-ebola-part-gods-end-times-judgment">said</a> God used Ebola as a &ldquo;warning&rdquo; because &ldquo;he is a gentleman.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Of course, gay people were also to blame. &ldquo;Trunews&rdquo; host Rick Wiles said God will use Ebola to give gays and others an &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-ebola-could-solve-americas-problems-atheism-and-homosexuality">attitude adjustment</a>,&rdquo; and pastor Ron Baity, who worked with the Family Research Council to champion his state&rsquo;s ban on marriage equality, <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2014/10/audio-nc-marriage-activist-warns-of-super-ebola-that-will-destroy-gay-accepting-america.html"> said </a> homosexuality is responsible for the Ebola outbreak since it is &ldquo;bringing the judgment of God on this nation.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>Gays Rights Victories</strong></p>
<p>Ebola, it turns out, was just one way that gay people, along with supporters of gay rights, tried to usher in the global calamities leading up to the End Times.</p>
<p>Deryl Edwards of Liberty Counsel pointed to growing acceptance of gay Christians as a sign that we are &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-acceptance-gay-christians-may-be-sign-end-times">in the Last Days</a>.&rdquo; Mission America&rsquo;s Linda Harvey <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/linda-harvey-lgbt-rights-ushering-end-times-or-end-america-or-both">claimed</a> marriage equality is one reason why &ldquo;we&rsquo;re heading into the End Times, and it sure looks like we may be, or the end of America &mdash; or both.&rdquo; Michael Bresciani of the Christian Post <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/christian-post-blogger-blames-terrorist-attacks-gay-rights">said</a> God will use terrorist attacks to punish the country for accepting gay rights. Pastor Flip Benham <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/benham-family-responds-hgtv-decision-lying-reports-sunk-show-homosexuality-destroys-nations">maintained</a> that homosexuality &ldquo;destroys those who practice it and nations that approve of it.&rdquo; Rick Wiles predicted that gay rights will <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-nuclear-holocaust-will-kill-us-all-thanks-gay-people">lead to an all-out nuclear war</a>.</p>
<p>Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Dwight McKissic <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mckissic-michael-sam-paving-way-gay-antichrist">said</a> athlete Michael Sam&rsquo;s decision to come out of the closet shows that &ldquo;the spirit of Sodom would be prevalent and prominent in the end time,&rdquo; since, McKissic claims, &ldquo;the Anti-Christ would be a homosexual, or certainly unmarried.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is the moral issue of the End Times,&rdquo; pastor Scott Lively <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-anti-gay-revolution-needed-stop-demonic-conspiracy-homosexualize-world">said</a> of homosexuality, lamenting in a radio show interview that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s just astonishing how rapidly they are proceeding in homosexualizing the whole world.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Addressing the National Organization for Marriage&rsquo;s Washington D.C. rally, Mike Huckabee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-failure-stop-gay-marriage-will-unleash-gods-judgment-upon-nation">said</a> that &ldquo;there is no doubt in my mind&rdquo; that the U.S. &ldquo;will feel His hand of judgment&rdquo; if the courts strike down bans on same-sex marriage. Another speaker at the event, pastor and Pennsylvania politician Sam Rohrer, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sam-rohrer-warns-marriage-equality-will-doom-america-bring-about-divine-judgment">predicted</a> that the legalization of same-sex marriage will &ldquo;destroy the very fabric of our nation,&rdquo; &ldquo;invite God&rsquo;s judgment&rdquo; and &ldquo;remove His blessing from our nation.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Televangelist Pat Robertson &mdash; who had a banner year of blasting gay people as &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-gay-rights-advocates-are-terrorists-radicals-and-extremists">terrorists</a>&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-recalls-days-when-gays-were-stoned-death-blames-satan-gay-rights">demonic</a> &mdash; marked Thanksgiving by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertsons-thanksgiving-message-gay-rights-are-leading-americas-destruction">warning</a> that gay rights are &ldquo;sowing the seeds&rdquo; of America&rsquo;s &ldquo;destruction.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>Abortion Rights</strong></p>
<p>Not only did we learn this year that the Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision in <em>Roe v. Wade </em>was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jonathan-cahn-links-legal-abortion-vietnam-war-911">responsible for America&rsquo;s withdrawal from Vietnam</a>, but the landmark ruling is also apparently paving the way for the Last Days.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The Response: Louisiana,&rdquo; the upcoming Baton Rouge prayer rally hosted by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and sponsored by the American Family Association, republished materials from its 2012 Houston event featuring Texas Gov. Rick Perry that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-prayer-rally-materials-blame-gays-legal-abortion-hurricane-katrina"> blamed abortion rights and homosexuality for natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina </a> and for contributing to America&rsquo;s &ldquo;ultimate destruction.&rdquo; (After the materials caused controversy, organizers <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-rally-organizers-remove-controversial-prayer-guide-still-think-gays-are-responsible-n"> removed them from their website</a>). Mike Huckabee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-abortion-rights-worse-nazi-holocaust-gay-marriage-dooms-america">similarly warned</a> in a speech reflecting on the Holocaust that abortion rights and marriage equality will lead to the collapse of civilization.</p>
<p>Michael Bresciani <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/christian-post-writer-says-extreme-weather-not-climate-change-sign-end-times">assured</a> Christian Post readers that the deleterious effects of climate change actually have nothing to do with the environment at all. Instead, Bresciani writes, incidents of extreme weather are just &ldquo;&lsquo;birth pangs&rsquo; for a planet about to meet its creator&rdquo; as legal abortion, along with homosexuality, brings &ldquo;the antichrist to his short lived rule over a reprobate and dying world.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In a column published on BarbWire, Bresciani <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barbwire-perfect-type-antichrist-barack-obama">claimed</a> that &ldquo;gay marriage and abortion, Obama&rsquo;s preferred social causes, are antichrist in nature,&rdquo; warning that the &ldquo;Bible says that when a nation chooses to ignore its sinfulness, God will not only allow them to go reprobate, but will empower them with rulers who will enable them to succeed in their drive to destruction.&rdquo;</p>
<p>End Times preacher Jonathan Cahn <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/end-times-rabbi-there-great-shaking-coming">linked</a> abortion rights and same-sex marriage to the September 11 terrorist attacks and a looming &ldquo;great shaking&rdquo; from God, and the Oak Initiative <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/border-crisis-gods-judgment-legal-abortion-and-gay-marriage">said</a> legal abortion led to &ldquo;the alien invasion&rdquo; on America&rsquo;s southern border as &ldquo;a sign of divine judgment.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Joel Rosenberg, a prominent Religious Right author who focuses his work on End Times scenarios, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-rosenberg-predicts-imminent-divine-punishment-over-abortion-rights">told</a> Pat Robertson that legal abortion has turned the U.S. into a worse country than Nazi Germany, warning viewers: &ldquo;We know the judgment that came on Nazi Germany, and we feel like it was correct, it was just. What do we think is going to happen?&rdquo;</p>
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<strong>The War on Christmas </strong></p>
<p>Conservative activists often celebrate Christmas by claiming that they are being persecuted by store clerks and neighbors who dare to say &ldquo;Happy Holidays&rdquo; as part of the annual "War on Christmas."</p>
<p>A distraught Franklin Graham <a href="http://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/december-2014/the-war-on-christmas-is-a-war-on-christ/">warned</a> &ldquo;the war on Christmas is a war on Christ and His followers&rdquo; and described it as a satanic plot that may one day lead to violent anti-Christian persecution.</p>
<p>A Renew America columnist <a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/crabb/141219">said</a> the &ldquo;war on Christmas&rdquo; and &ldquo;the growing disrespect and outright mocking of one of Christianity&rsquo;s holiest days&rdquo; is linked to biblical prophecies about the End Times: &ldquo;While Christians in other nations like Iraq, China, and Iran are being murdered in the most gruesome of ways for their faith in Jesus Christ, America allows Him to be mocked and ridiculed. What kind of people have we become to allow this travesty? God's Word says that &lsquo;in the Last Days, scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires.&rsquo; (2 Pe. 3:3 NLT).&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Friends, what we are seeing is the reason America is not mentioned as a world power in Bible end times prophecy,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barbwire-pundit-war-christmas-and-obama-foreign-policy-will-cause-god-destroy-us">writes</a> J.P. Sloane in the far-right outlet BarbWire. &ldquo;As America continues to travel down the Paganistic heathen slope of perversions&mdash;and atheists attacking Christians and Jews&mdash;while Muslims are celebrating their holidays in the very capital of our country&mdash;yes in our very own White House&mdash;Christmas&mdash;a legal American holiday&mdash;is under attack on a regular annual basis!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Christian Anti-Defamation Commission President Gary Cass told radio host Jerry Newcombe of Truth in Action Ministries that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gary-cass-antichrist-spirit-behind-war-christmas">the spirit of Antichrist</a>&rdquo; is behind the mythical War on Christmas.</p>
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<p>On yesterday's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/f9419ce0-a020-438b-8b66-9c1068a26c91">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee announced the creation of something called "The Sanctuary of Hope," which John Hagee Ministries intends to build as a home/school for orphans, those in foster care, and children of parents who want to ensure they get a godly education and through which Hagee and his father intends to transform America.</p>
<p>"Right now, the battle lines in this country are for the young people," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmdRMjP0nvA">he explained</a>. "The one thing that's missing in American education right now? The Word of God. The one thing that's missing in our decisions in government, in many cases? The Word of God. And whenever you do not have the foundation of your society, which is the Word of God, in the decisions that you are making, you're going the wrong direction."</p>
<p>The Sanctuary of Hope is being created to correct this problem, Hagee then explained in a video promoting the project.</p>
<p>"How do we take America back? One leader at a time. That school is going to train leaders that are going to make godly decisions. How are we going to take this country back? One generation at a time and the Sanctuary of Hope is going to be the training ground for the soldiers in the army of the living God that are going to do great things for his kingdom":</p>
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Kyle MantylaJohn Hagee Matthew HageeTexasC3Fighting the Right49315Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:59:43 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: Strict Rules And The Ten Commandments Would Have Prevented Unrest In Fergusonhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-strict-rules-and-ten-commandments-would-have-prevented-unrest-ferguson
<p>On yesterday's edition of "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/01704337-8f32-4e67-b92b-1347c5fc2cd8">The Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee and local conservative radio host Trey Ware discussed the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, that erupted after a grand jury failed to indict the police office who shot and killed Michael Brown.</p>
<p>Hagee and Ware are quite certain that all of this unrest is being stoked and orchestrated by unnamed nefarious forces which seek to spread chaos and undermine social cohesion, with Hagee insisting that if the Ten Commandments were being followed, none of this would ever have happened.</p>
<p>Hagee noted that when he was growing up with four siblings, his father John Hagee, set down strict rules that kept the house from descending into chaos because he simply "never let it begin," which is exactly what the government should have done in Ferguson.</p>
<p>"Now that seems like an overly simple principle," Hagee said, in what can only be described an absurd understatement, "but apply it to the situation in Ferguson."</p>
<p>"Put the Ten Commandments into play in the Ferguson situation," he stated. "Thou shalt not steal. What would that commandment have created in this matter? One, there never would have been a reason to be an engagement between Michael Brown and Officer Wilson."</p>
<p>"Thou shalt not kill," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUZMKbRP0kI">he continued</a>, talking not about Wilson's shooting of Brown, but rather the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/02/bosnian-killing-st-louis-hammer-murder-charges/19768909/">unrelated murder</a> of Zemir Begic in St. Louis over the weekend. "What would that do in the situation we see happening with the young man who was assaulted by a pack of teens carrying hammers who beat his car and then, when he stepped out of the car, beat him to death twenty miles outside of Ferguson in a community just outside of St. Louis? We're seeing these kinds of things pop up all over the place and the excuse is injustice. The truth is we want chaos":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right49176Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:26:48 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee: Shooting In Canada Is A Sign Of The End Timeshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-shooting-canada-sign-end-times
<p>Last week, a Canadian man went on a <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/27/police-investigating-whether-michael-zehaf-bibeau-told-anyone-about-his-plans-before-ottawa-shooting/">shooting rampage</a> in Ottawa, killing a soldier before entering Parliament, where he was killed by the parliamentary sergeant-at-arms.</p>
<p>Naturally Matthew Hagee sees this as further proof that the End Times are approaching, saying on <a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/498aa785-c183-480e-a927-099c012108da">this week's</a> "Hagee Hotline" that the attack was "absolutely" tied to Christ's imminent return.</p>
<p>We are seeing "wars and rumors of wars," just as Jesus prophesied, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LAZSPN30B8">Hagee declared</a>, which is proof that we are living in the final days:</p>
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<p>For the record, Hagge has also insisted that the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-doma-ruling-sign-rapture-church-about-occur">Supreme Court's DOMA ruling</a>, the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-navy-yard-shooting-sign-end-times">shooting at the Navy Yard</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-obamacare-conditioning-people-accept-mark-beast">Obamacare</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-it-not-climate-change-its-imminent-return-jesus-christ">climate change</a>, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-ebola-crisis-sign-end-times">the Ebola outbreak</a> are all proof that the End Times are near.</p>
Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right48844Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:42:00 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee Says Ebola Crisis Is A Sign Of The End Timeshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-ebola-crisis-sign-end-times
<p>While John Hagee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/john-hagee-says-ebola-gods-judgment-america-because-obama-trying-divide-israel">sees</a> the current Ebola outbreak as proof that God's judgment is on America for failing to support Israel, his son Matthew sees the crisis as a sign that the End Times are near and Jesus will soon return.</p>
<p>Answering a question from a viewer on today's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/1418ad26-37eb-4ccd-8962-412a495c4fd1">Hagee Hotline</a>," Hagee (wrongly) cited <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24&version=NIV">Matthew 24:7</a> to claim that Jesus warned that famines and pestilence would break out before his return (In Matthew, Jesus warned of "famines and earthquakes"; It was in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+21&version=ESV">Luke 21</a> where Jesus warned of "famines and pestilences.")</p>
<p>"Pestilence is an illness for which there seems to be no cure," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEoLGYWfBD4">Hagee said</a>. "That would certainly describe Ebola":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right48657Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:11:45 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee: Christians Cannot Support Gay Marriage Or Abortion Rights Because They Must 'Vote The Bible'http://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-christians-cannot-support-gay-marriage-or-abortion-rights-because-they-must-vo
<p>On yesterday's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/12b63212-aea0-498f-9a9d-5f8764f97020">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee told his viewers that, as Christians, they are required to "vote the Bible," which means that they cannot ever vote for any candidate who supports reproductive rights or marriage equality.</p>
<p>Hagee declared that if Christians would just vote the Bible on these two issues alone, "we would find ourselves with principled leadership that can lead this country back to what we are supposed to be."</p>
<p>"If you see a politician who says that he's pro-choice or she's pro-choice, you cannot vote the Bible and vote for that politician," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirkclMdUtE">Hagee said</a>. "If you see a politician that wavers on what the definition of a marriage should be, you cannot vote the Bible and vote for that individual":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right48144Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:23:20 -0500Matthew HageeParanoia-Rama: Fluoride Endangers Freedom, Is Michelle Obama Transgender And Louie Gohmert Has It All Figured Outhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/paranoia-rama-fluoride-endangers-freedom-michelle-obama-transgender-and-louie-gohmert-has-it
<p><em>RWW&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/paranoia-rama">Paranoia-Rama</a> takes a look at five of the week&rsquo;s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.</em></p>
<p>Before Obamacare draws the earth into its Last Days with its <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/obamacare-lowers-uninsured-108789.html">sinister, demonic agenda of making sure more people have health coverage</a>, we thought you&rsquo;d like to hear about the recent right-wing concerns regarding voter fraud, same-sex marriage, fluoride&hellip;and Michelle Obama&rsquo;s gender.</p>
<p><strong>5. Obamacare Leading To The Mark Of The Beast</strong></p>
<p>With President Obama well into his second term, it seems that predictions that he is the Antichrist probably weren&rsquo;t true. Instead, it is now much easier to claim that Obama is only <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jeffress-obama-paving-reign-antichrist">paving the way for the Antichrist</a>.</p>
<p>Televangelist Matthew Hagee, for example, this week <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-obamacare-conditioning-people-accept-mark-beast">warned viewers that the Affordable Care Act</a> will condition people to accept &ldquo;the kind of global dictatorship that is described in the End Times&rdquo; and the Mark of the Beast.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It is the kind of mental mindset and thought process that enables someone to look at a leader in the future and say, &lsquo;Certainly, you can give me a mark and that mark,&rsquo;&rdquo; he said.</p>
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<p><strong>4. Fluoride Undermines Freedom! </strong></p>
<p>What&rsquo;s better than a Republican congressman speaking at a climate change denialism conference? How about a Republican congressman speaking at a climate change denialism conference about the purported threat of fluoridated water!</p>
<p>&ldquo;A lot of these things come down to freedom issues,&rdquo; Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLoVgSRnko">said</a> during a Heartland Institute summit on Tuesday. &ldquo;[I]n this country, we should be the ones who should be deciding what we put into our bodies one way or the other, not the federal government or the local government putting fluoride into our water!&rdquo;</p>
<p>As Lee Fang <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/us-congressman-opens-climate-science-denial-conference-with-rant-against-water-fluoridation-708">points out</a>, &ldquo;Rohrabacher is a member of the House Science Committee, which oversees federal policy concerning science and innovation.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>3. Child Migrants Coming To Commit Voter Fraud</strong></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s always fun to witness some of our favorite Republicans take multiple conspiracy theories and put them together to make one grand conspiracy, as was this case with Rep. Louie Gohmert this week.</p>
<p>In an interview with Newsmax, Gohmert combined the old and very much discredited claim that President Obama used massive voter fraud to win re-election with the new conspiracy theory that the White House is orchestrating the surge in children crossing the southern border.</p>
<p>You see, according to Gohmert, who remember is an actual member of Congress, Obama is unlawfully bringing in children from Central America <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-obama-bringing-central-american-immigrants-vote-illegally-democrats">as part of a Democratic plot to use voter fraud to &ldquo;turn Texas blue.&rdquo;</a></p>
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<p>The young migrants may one day vote Republican, Gohmert explains, but he&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/louie-gohmert-says-latinos-will-vote-republican-because-they-believe-god">not sure there&rsquo;s a country left by the time they realize that</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>2. California Legalized Bestiality, Or Something</strong></p>
<p>Fox News is still insisting on having Keith Ablow put in his two cents on the issues of the day, especially following his <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/27/keith-ablow-is-right-the-world-cup-is-a-plot-to-distract-america-from-president-obamas-scandals/">brilliant commentary</a> about how President Obama traveled back in time to launch the World Cup tournament in order to distract Americans from the 2012 Benghazi attack.</p>
<p>Ablow,<a href="http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201109260010"> no stranger to anti-LGBT ravings</a>, this week claimed that California, by legalizing same-sex marriage, has also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/07/09/foxs-ablow-claims-gay-marriage-will-lead-to-pol/200038">legalized polygamy and man-dog marriages</a>. Of course, that isn&rsquo;t even close to true, but this is Fox News after all:</p>
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<p><strong>1. Alex Jones Is Just Asking The Question</strong></p>
<p>Alex Jones yesterday had a &ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfuRYs4Sbdw">special report</a>&rdquo; on <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/10/alex-jones-sinks-to-a-new-low-calling-michelle-obama-the-first-tranny/">whether Michelle Obama is a transgender woman</a>. Jones insisted that he was <em>just asking the question</em>: &ldquo;The question is: who is Michelle Obama? Is she really a woman? Is she a man? Now I&rsquo;m not drawing any conclusions here but it&rsquo;s fair to question anything and everything this administration says.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Every time I look at Michelle or Michael Obama, the First Lady or the First Tranny, something doesn&rsquo;t look right. She doesn&rsquo;t look like any black woman or any woman I&rsquo;ve ever known,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;[She] obviously has some type of chromosomal mutation or disorder, I mean undoubtedly something is wrong with her.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He of course linked he first lady's gender to population control, eugenics and the growth of global government.</p>
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Brian TashmanAlex JonesC4Dana RohrabacherKeith AblowLouie Gohmert Matthew HageeParanoia-RamaFighting the Right47553Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:35:15 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee Says Obamacare Is Conditioning People To Accept The Mark Of The Beasthttp://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-says-obamacare-conditioning-people-accept-mark-beast
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/2bba0639-18aa-45f6-820a-abb5886d7fcf">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee answered a question from a viewer who was wondering if Obamacare will "increase the risk of America supporting a one world government" by assuring her that it most certainly does.</p>
<p>As Hagee explained, Obamacare makes people more dependent upon the government, which is conditioning them to accept "the kind of global dictatorship that is described in the End Times" and to ultimately take the Mark of the Beast.</p>
<p>Acceptance of Obamacare, Hagee said, is teaching people "to look at a leader in the future and say 'certainly, you can give me a mark and that mark will keep me in terms of trading and doing all of the things that I want to do, buying and selling of goods and services, no problem; I'll do it because you're the government and you said I need it.'"</p>
<p>Legislation like Obamacare, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCGDdMyI36M">he concluded</a>, "leads us on a path and in a direction that in the end will take us to what the Bible describes as a one world government":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right47509Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:18:10 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: It Is Not Climate Change; It's The Imminent Return Of Jesus Christhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-it-not-climate-change-its-imminent-return-jesus-christ
<p>Matthew Hagee kicked off this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/63fe3161-80a9-4f74-a1af-fd430978f6f0">Hagee Hotline</a>" by informing his viewers that in situations where "men are saying things that contradict God's word, God's word is accurate and men are wrong" ... and that is why Christians should not believe in climate change.</p>
<p>As Hagee explained, the views put forth by scientists and experts on any subject are not to be believed if those views are at odds with what the Bible teaches. As such, the extreme weather events that the climate has been experiencing are not the result of climate change but are rather signs of the End Times and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>"The Bible says that whenever we approach the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKBC4O5aNR0">Hagee explained</a>, "that there would be strange weather patterns. Jesus said this in Matthew the twenty-fifth chapter. So we have a decision to make: do we believe what an environmentalist group says and choose to live in a world where we're attempting to make everything as clean in the air as possible, or do we believe what the Bible says, that these things were going to happen and that rather than try to clean up all of the air and solve all of the problems of the world by eliminating factories, we should start to tell people about Jesus Christ who is to return?":</p>
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Kyle MantylaClimate changeMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right47023Fri, 30 May 2014 12:31:28 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee: 'There Is A Value In Spiritual Violence'http://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-there-value-spiritual-violence
<p>On yesterday's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/b00cd7b8-240e-4ab6-84c2-253ea9735ec3">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee called on conservative Christians to become more "spiritually violent" in fighting against things like gay marriage and abortion because secularists who support such things have "become violent with people of faith."</p>
<p>Citing the Supreme Court's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/supreme-court-upholds-sectarian-prayer-official-meetings-religious-right-cheers">recent ruling</a> upholding sectarian prayer at government meetings, Hagee said that he would have rejoiced if the ruling has been 8-1 "because then we would know that we have one liberal judge that we needed to get rid of." But the actual 5-4 ruling is cause for alarm because it means that prayer is just one vote away from being entirely eliminated from public life, Hagee warned, and that "ought to be something that causes us to be chilled to the bone."</p>
<p>"It's absolute nonsense for us to be debating the value of prayer," Hagee said, just as it is "absolute nonsense" to even be having debates over issues like gay marriage and abortion. The reason such debates are happening, he said, is because Christians are not being "intrusive enough to make sure that our faith is established in our culture."</p>
<p>As a result, secularists have "become violent with people of faith" and Christians need to fight back.</p>
<p>"There is a value in spiritual violence," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMrOcYLMXKY">Hagee declared</a>, "and it is time that you considered the role that you are playing or not playing and whether or not it's time for you to become more aggressive in your beliefs":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right46771Wed, 07 May 2014 12:25:11 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee: 'What Happened In 1492 Happened Again Last Week In The Ukraine'http://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-what-happened-1492-happened-again-last-week-ukraine
<p>Last year, John Hagee released a book entitled "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Blood-Moons-Something-Change/dp/1617952141">Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change</a>" which <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/February/Divine-Sign-for-Israel-Hagee-Explains-Blood-Moons/">claims</a> that God is sending signs to humanity in the form of multiple <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse#Appearance">blood moons</a> and that the world is "going to see something dramatic happen in the Middle East involving Israel that will change the course of history in the Middle East and impact the whole world."</p>
<p>As Hagee explained in an <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/is-everything-about-to-change-the-first-of-four-blood-moons-occurs-april-15-117957/">op-ed</a> published in <em>The Christian Post</em>, there will be four blood moons over the next two years and each will occur on days "that are significant to Israel and also occur during Jewish Feasts," which is a sign that "God is getting ready to change the course of human history once again."</p>
<p>On this week's installment of the "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/b549df40-5d4d-44ee-b63d-27107dc85200">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee seized upon reports that anti-Semitic flyers were distributed in Eastern Ukraine last week allegedly telling Jews to register with the local government and pay or fee or else have their possessions confiscated and be deported as proof that the signs of the blood moon were coming true.</p>
<p>Though the flyers were widely regarded as <a href="http://time.com/67272/ukraine-jew-register-donetsk/">being a hoax</a>, Hagee said that the distribution of such flyers was a repeat of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_decree">expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492</a>, which also reportedly took place during a blood moon.</p>
<p>"What happened in 1492 happened again last week in the Ukraine," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxJ7GlR5WFk">Hagee said</a>, "on the first of four blood moons":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right46607Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:25:44 -0500Matthew HageeMatthew Hagee: We Are 'Living In An Evil Day'http://www.pfaw.org/content/matthew-hagee-we-are-living-evil-day
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/504f2c0f-733a-41ca-a0c6-bef268012033">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee lamented that we are "living in an evil day" where abortion is legal, gay marriage is gaining acceptance, and support for Israel is dropping all while Christians do nothing about it.</p>
<p>"It's an evil day whenever we the people of the United States are debating about the definition of a family," Hagee said, "and allowing same-sex couples to have the same privileges of married couples."</p>
<p>Hagee was particularly alarmed by what is happening regarding Israel because "as Israel goes, so does the rest of the world."</p>
<p>"If Israel is at peace, the world is at peace. If Israel is in conflict, the world is in conflict. If Israel is prosperous, the world prospers. If Israel is in dire straits, the world struggles," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9vmw0FJK8">he asserted</a>. "This is not someone's opinion, this is historical fact":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right46263Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:01:21 -0500Matthew HageeRight Wing Leftovers - 3/14/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-31414
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<ul> <li> Apparently Steve Stockman's buffoonish primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn was really a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/the-steve-stockman-strategy/">brilliant plan</a> to make Karl Rove spend millions of dollars.</li> <p> <li> It looks like Sarah Palin has come up with a <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/03/8541966/sarah-palin-plans-%E2%80%98rogue-tv%E2%80%99">new scheme</a> rooted in the strange assumption that people will actually pay money to hear what she has to say.</li> <p> <li> Allen West <a href="http://youtu.be/X6oP2nG6MpA?t=6m26s">wonders</a> if there is some "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9neFAM4uZM">The Dark Knight Rises</a>" type of story behind the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight.</li> <p> <li> Scott Lively <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2014/03/14/christian-activist-lgbt-movement-owns-calif-and-its-governor#.UyMI6YUVA-A">says</a> that California has been taken over by the gays.</li> <p> <li> Finally, because it is Friday, please enjoy Matthew Hagee's new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUauzKSuu3E">country/gospel music video</a>:</li> <p align="center"><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.pfaw.org//www.youtube.com/embed/MUauzKSuu3E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p></ul>
Kyle MantylaAllen WestLeftoversMatthew Hagee46131Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:30:47 -0500Matthew HageeDavid Barton, Who Refused To Run For Office, Now Says Refusing To Run For Office Is 'Pure Selfishness'http://www.pfaw.org/content/david-barton-who-refused-run-office-now-says-refusing-run-office-pure-selfishness
<p>For the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-refusing-run-office-david-barton-lectures-everyone-else-importance-running-office">second time</a> in one week, we have now watched David Barton appear on a Religious Right television program where he lectures Christians on the necessity of running for political office as the host mutely sits there and nods in agreement without ever pointing out that, just a few months ago, Barton himself <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-announces-he-will-not-run-senate">did the very thing</a> he is now saying that Christians <em>must never do</em>.</p>
<p>Appearing on "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/0d2c8c1f-411a-4605-b347-3204553f2704?title=The_Difference_with_Matthew_Hagee_Season_2_Guest_David_Barton">The Difference With Matthew Hagee</a>" yesterday, Barton <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/after-refusing-run-office-david-barton-lectures-everyone-else-importance-running-office">repeated</a> the Parable of the Thornbush while declaring that a Christian who refuses to run for office when asked to do so by his or her fellow Christians is being selfish.</p>
<p>"If your fellow citizens tell you they want you in office, you don't have a right to say no," <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTO3CWwFRbo">Barton said</a>. "That's pure selfishness."</p>
<p>Of course, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-announces-he-will-not-run-senate">just four months ago</a> a movement to draft Barton to run for the US Senate in a challenge to Sen. John Cornyn that was championed by none other than Glenn Beck was quashed when Barton declared that running for office was not right for him because his "role is to continue educating, equipping, and inspiring citizens through the work we do at WallBuilders."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Keep in mind that this is literally the exact sort of selfishness that he says Christians <em>cannot</em> display when asked to run for office:</p>
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Kyle MantylaDavid Barton Matthew HageeWallbuilders C3Fighting the Right46108Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:48:54 -0500Matthew HageeRight Wing Leftovers - 3/4/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-3414
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<ul> <li> Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ag-kentucky-appeal-order-gay-
marriage-22766746">will hire</a> outside attorneys after the attorney general announced he wouldn't appeal a decision granting
legal recognition to same-sex couples married in other states.</li> <p> <li> Tom DeLay is <a
href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/3/ex-house-majority-leader-tom-delay-to-join-times/">joining</a> <em>The
Washington Times</em> as a weekly columnist and radio personality.</li> <p> <li> Peter LaBarbera <a
href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2014/03/04/labarbera-disneys-bsa-decision-shows-compromise-of-homosexual-
activists#.UxZPUYWmVxV">warns</a> that "the culture is sliding downward and the big question is will Christians wake up and
make these corporations suffer for their liberal, radical sort of pro-sin advocacy?"</li> <p> <li> We are
pretty certain that a <a href="https://twitter.com/PastorMattHagee/status/439977607094759425">tweet</a> from Matthew Hagee that was
retweeted just 70 times was <em>not</em> <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-matthew-hagees-jesusoveroscar-tweet-
responsible-for-son-of-god-movies-1st-place-finish-at-box-office-sunday-115538/">responsible</a> for the "Son of God" movie taking in nearly $7 million on
Sunday.</li> <p> <li> Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention&rsquo;s Ethics & Religious
Liberty Commission, <a href="http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/04/u-s-evangelicals-defense-ugandas-new-anti-homosexuality-
act/">says</a> that he doesn't know any evangelicals who would support anti-gay legislation like that passed in Uganda. He
should ask us because we can point him to several.</li></ul>Kyle MantylaLeftoversMatthew HageePeter LaBarbera Russell MooreTom DeLay45970Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:31:17 -0500Matthew HageeDeLay: Americans Have Forgotten That God Wrote The Constitutionhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/delay-americans-have-forgotten-god-wrote-constitution
<p>As we noted earlier this year, Matthew Hagee has been hosting a weekly talk show called "The Difference" where he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-intends-turn-his-movie-studio-pixar-faith-movies">interviews people like Rick Santorum</a> and <a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/ca8e0cd2-e9f1-4909-adec-4290a46b6b7e?title=The_Difference_with_Matthew_Hagee_Season_2_Guest_Tom_Delay">now Tom DeLay</a>, who declared that a lot of the problems in America can be traced back to the moment when "we allowed our government to become a secular government."</p>
<p>DeLay said that Americans have forgotten "that God created this nation [and] that He wrote the Constitution, that it's based on biblical principles," but he is also optimistic that the tide is beginning to shift, noting that when he was in Congress, he sealed off the rotunda in the Capitol building so that leaders from Congress could come together for three hours to get on their knees and seek the face of God.</p>
<p>"And I really feel now," <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxFp0TRgN7w">DeLay said,</a> "that the Lord has heard us and I see the Holy Spirit moving":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeTom DeLayC3Fighting the Right45804Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:23:57 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: 'Whenever You Use Science To Teach The Deception Of Evolution, That's Ungodly'http://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-whenever-you-use-science-teach-deception-evolution-thats-ungodly
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/c287dd40-6f8a-4af2-9e13-f36575895678">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee answered a question from a viewer who wanted to know if sex education was ungodly by explaining that things like sex ed, science, English, and math are only ungodly if they are not taught from the perspective that "God is the source of all knowledge."</p>
<p>Provided that those being taught sex ed are told that they were created by God in order be fruitful and multiply for His glory, then it is fine. But, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XuIr1kreds">Hagee said</a>, if it is taught from any other perspective in order to "teach perversion," then it is ungodly, just as "whenever you use science to teach the deception of evolution, that's ungodly":</p>
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Kyle MantylaEvolutionMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right45802Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:20:48 -0500Matthew HageeThe Cuomo Hypocrisy Controversy Comes Full Circlehttp://www.pfaw.org/content/cuomo-hypocrisy-controversy-comes-full-circle
<p>We didn't think anything could top <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hypocrisy-thy-name-glenn-beck">Glenn Beck's hypocrisy</a> over Governor Andrew Cuomo's statement that "extreme conservatives ... have no place in the state of New York" but, of course, we were wrong, as we always are whenever we think that the Religious Right has reached its nadir.</p>
<p>To remind us of our folly was none other than Matthew Hagee, who used <a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/af9669bb-f06a-4254-83cf-d93566c6c8d2">yesterday's broadcast</a> of "The Hagee Hotline" to blast Cuomo for his comments.</p>
<p>Falsely asserting that Cuomo made the remarks duing his State of the State address (they were actually <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/gov-cuomo-pro-life-pro-gun-anti-gay-extreme-conservatives-have-no-place-in-new-york/">made during a radio interview</a>), Hagee <a href="http://youtu.be/78HiC5-I0eI">compared</a> Cuomo's statement to George Wallace's attacks on those fighting for civil rights as well as the dehumanization and murder of millions by the likes of Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>To hear Hagee tell it, it is extremely dangerous when leaders begin declaring that people who do not share their particular views have no place in their own nation ... and keep in mind that Hagee's <em>own father</em> has used this very same sort of language, declaring on <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-tells-atheists-leave-country-because-they-are-not-wanted-and-wont-be-missed">multiple</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-people-who-dont-hearing-merry-christmas-should-leave-country">occasions</a> that atheists are not wanted in America and should get out of this country:</p>
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Kyle MantylaJohn Hagee Matthew HageeC3Fighting the Right45479Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:05:57 -0500Matthew HageeSantorum Intends To Turn His Movie Studio Into 'The Pixar Of Faith Movies'http://www.pfaw.org/content/santorum-intends-turn-his-movie-studio-pixar-faith-movies
<p>The first film released under Rick Santorum's leadership at EchoLight Studios was "The Christmas Candle," which didn't even manage to <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=christmascandle.htm">earn back a third</a> of its <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rick-santorum-film-christmas-candle-debuts-theaters-article-1.1526208">$7 million budget</a>.</p>
<p>But Santorum maintains a grand vision for the future, <a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/9b9aa656-a0bb-4064-a7a2-e940c957a11e?title=The_Difference_with_Matthew_Hagee_Season_2_Guest_Senator_Rick_Santorum">telling Matthew Hagee</a>, who is apparently a talk show host now, that he intends to turn EchoLight into "<a href="http://youtu.be/SGprscFSFcQ">the Pixar of faith movies</a>":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeMediaRick Santorum C3Fighting the Right45367Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:08:12 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: 'If Man Says Something That Is Contradictory To What God Says, Man Is Lying'http://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-if-man-says-something-contradictory-what-god-says-man-lying
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/aba17e0b-2b60-47cb-8dfa-8fcf93cfaca7?title=Hagee_Hotline_October_29th_2013">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee responded to a question from a viewer asking how to respond to <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/story-of-jesus-christ-was-fabricated-to-pacify-the-poor-claims-controversial-biblical-scholar-8870879.html">a new book that claims</a> that the story of Jesus Christ was fabricated as part of a propaganda campaign created by the Roman Government in order to pacify its subjects.</p>
<p>Hagee responded by flatly declaring that the Bible says that God is truth, therefore "if man says something that is contradictory to what God says, man is lying."</p>
<p>Claiming that you cannot trust supposed "ancient confessions," <a href="http://youtu.be/5Xw_z64YZIE">Hagee asserted</a> that the Word of God has been tried, found true, and sustained for thousands of years, so the solution to this problem is for the viewer to just "stop researching Christ and you start believing in Christ":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right44735Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:43:12 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: Navy Yard Shooting Is A Sign Of The End Timeshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-navy-yard-shooting-sign-end-times
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/88f71afb-b8d7-438d-b5c3-ca4a8c0ea8b6">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee responded to a question from a viewer asking about signs of the End Times by saying that the warnings that Jesus gave in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024&version=NKJV">Matthew 24</a> were all being played out daily in the newspaper.</p>
<p>Possible military action against Syria, <a href="http://youtu.be/wfrSZFa_Dbo">he warned</a>, could lead to World War III, which is the fulfillment of Jesus' assertion that "you will hear of wars and rumors of wars" as the End Times approach.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jesus also warned of an increase in lawlessness, prompting Hagee to point to the mass shooting at the Navy Yard earlier this week as further proof that "before you know it, Jesus Christ is coming again":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right44297Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:43:13 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: Those Who Believe In Separation Of Church & State Will Answer To Godhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-those-who-believe-separation-church-state-will-answer-god
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/fa4b7341-3a82-40ed-8971-7ad0bfb1f4a2?title=Hagee_Hotline_August_27_2013">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee responded to a question from a viewer about how she should respond to people who support the separation of church and state by telling her that such people will ultimately have to answer to God for believing this deception.</p>
<p>Claiming that the government uses the idea of separation of church and state to discourage Christians from getting involved in politics, Hagee said that one's faith must determine how they vote.</p>
<p>"As a Bible-believer," Hagee counseled, "you should never vote for someone who is pro-abortion. According to Bible standards ... they're pro-murder."</p>
<p>As for those who believe in the separation of church and state, <a href="http://youtu.be/_o1F_Pdx1dU">Hagee said</a> that he "would like to see what God's opinion of your position is when you meet him in eternity":</p> <p align="center"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.pfaw.org//www.youtube.com/embed/_o1F_Pdx1dU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeSeparation of Church and StateC3Fighting the Right44115Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:56:52 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: 'People Who Are Educated Cannot Look At Two Men Married And Say That That's Right'http://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-people-who-are-educated-cannot-look-two-men-married-and-say-thats-right
<p>Over the July 4 holiday weekend, Matthew Hagee <a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/88f31bdb-60b5-4154-b072-deb091902270?title=Renewing_our_Vow_with_America">delivered a sermon</a> in which he attacked the Supreme Court over its DOMA ruling, outraged that, as a result, "newspapers carried cover pages with homosexual couples kissing on the front page, requiring parents to explain to their young children why two people would engage in such behavior."</p>
<p>Hagee <a href="http://youtu.be/5hI1cOgFBEM">went on to warn</a> that there was an attempt underway to undermine faith, family, and education because people of faith know that Supreme Court rulings are only legitimate to the extent to which they agree with the Bible and because "people who are educated cannot look at two men married and say that that's right":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right43851Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:09:48 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: DOMA Ruling A Sign That 'The Rapture Of The Church Is About To Occur'http://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-doma-ruling-sign-rapture-church-about-occur
<p>On a recent installment of the weekly "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/5f8c18fe-a819-4d7c-8ff1-a885973fa4bf?title=Hagee_Hotline_July_2_2013">Hagee Hotline,</a>" Matthew Hagee responded to a question from a viewer wondering if the Rapture is about to occur by declaring that indeed it is.</p>
<p>Citing the statement from Jesus in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A22-30&version=ESV">Luke 17: 22-30</a> that "just as it was in the days of Noah [and] Lot ... so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed," Hagee explained that today all of the same things are taking place as occurred during the days of Noah, such as men being wicked and atheistic, and during the days of Lot when "men had given up the natural affections for women and were lying with other men."</p>
<p>Hagee then pointed specifically to the Supreme Court's recent DOMA decision, <a href="http://youtu.be/2BT9QBKd8oM">saying</a> "that's something that would have been applauded in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.&nbsp; So when you see these things similar to the days of Noah and similar to the days of Lot, it's very easy to know that the rapture of the church is about to occur":</p>
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Kyle MantylaDOMAMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right43625Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:56:50 -0500Matthew HageeHagee: Healing In Jesus' Name 'Works Every Time'http://www.pfaw.org/content/hagee-healing-jesus-name-works-every-time
<p>On this week's "<a href="https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/80143f92-5dfd-441c-ad5b-f0f1c3f3e280?title=Hagee_Hotline_May_21_2013">Hagee Hotline</a>," Matthew Hagee received a question from a viewer about why healing in Jesus' name doesn't always work.&nbsp; Hagee replied that, in fact, "healing works every time" but simply manifests itself in different forms.</p>
<p>There are some times when a person is instantaneously healed in Jesus' name and other times when they are healed over a longer period of weeks or months ... and then sometimes the person actually dies "but that does not mean they're not healed."</p>
<p>"The Bible says," <a href="http://youtu.be/8gJTCbVv2GA">Hagee explained</a>, "that when we get into presence of God that every sickness, every infirmity, and every kind of weakness is gone, which is an absolute and total healing":</p>
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Kyle MantylaMatthew HageeC3Fighting the Right43153Thu, 23 May 2013 12:41:03 -0500Matthew Hagee